Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline crack hits fresh 3-month high

LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The European gasoline crack hit a fresh three-month high on the back of a gasoline pipeline outage in the United States that is alleviating the prolonged surplus.

* A full restart of Colonial's Line 1 that moves gasoline to the U.S. Atlantic Coast from the U.S. Gulf Coast is expected to be completed by this weekend.

* Azerbaijan's SOCAR restarted gasoline output at the 140,000 barrels per day Heydar Aliyev refinery after a month-long maintenance.

* U.S. gasoline stocks rose last week by 567,000 barrels, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 343,000-barrel gain, according to U.S. government data.

GASOLINE

* There were no trades but a bid surfaced at $463 a tonne fob ARA, compared with a deal done at $485 a tonne fob ARA in the previous session.

* Some 11,000 tonnes traded earlier in the day at $476-$483 a tonne fob ARA, a lower range than Tuesday's at $480-$85 a tonne.

* Rolympus sold to Total (LSE: 524773.L - news) two barge of premium unleaded gasoline at $487 a tonne fob ARA, down from $497 a tonne fob ARA on Tuesday.

* The October swap stood at around $449 a tonne, down from $457.50 a tonne at the close.

* Gasoline barge refining margins rose to $11.63, up slightly from $11.4 a barrel on Tuesday, the highest since end June.

* Brent crude oil futures were down 82 cents at $46.28 a barrel by 1602 GMT.

* U.S. August RBOB gasoline futures were down 1.93 percent at 1.3500 a gallon.

* The U.S. gasoline crack (RB-CL1=R) was trading at $12.67 a barrel down from $13.20 a barrel.

NAPHTHA (NAF-C-NWE)

* BP sold a cargo to Gunvor at $381 a tonne cif Northwest Europe for Sept. 26-30 delivery. The deal was down from Tuesday's at $387-$388 a tonne cif NWE.

(Reporting by Julia Payne)